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What people say when you keep missing the nail with a hammer

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andy r

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Without prompting anyone I would like to know what fellow co-workers might have jokingly said when someone might have repeatedly missed a nail head with a hammer. I said something to a guy that was replacing some siding after the flashing was put on during a roofing job. Young guy about 22 years old. He would hit the nail once and miss it five times. The other two workers had never heard of the "off handed" phase. The phase I teased him with was quite common I thought, but no one had heard of it. If what you know/have heard is a little off color you might have to put some _ _ _ _ blanks in the word to make it "G" rated. I just have to prove to some friends that at least someone else has heard of my saying when someone misses the nail head.
 
---Same nail?

---Let me know when you are ready for your next nail.

---We"ll have the roof on by the time you get that nail driven.

---Can your husband drive nails that fast?
 
(quoted from post at 14:39:12 02/12/14) Without prompting anyone I would like to know what fellow co-workers might have jokingly said when someone might have repeatedly missed a nail head with a hammer. I said something to a guy that was replacing some siding after the flashing was put on during a roofing job. Young guy about 22 years old. He would hit the nail once and miss it five times. The other two workers had never heard of the "off handed" phase. The phase I teased him with was quite common I thought, but no one had heard of it. If what you know/have heard is a little off color you might have to put some _ _ _ _ blanks in the word to make it "G" rated. I just have to prove to some friends that at least someone else has heard of my saying when someone misses the nail head.
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Brother is carpenter, he is fond of saying if someone repeatedly misses the nail. Hey dude,...do you need a frying pan!?
 
If it was me I was always cursing too loud to hear any comments !

If it was someone else then I was laughing too loud to comment.

I don't think I ever remember hearing any fancy phrases ?
 
When someone has missed the nail and ended up doing a silly dance holding their thumb tightly......We always ask "did ya hit the wrong nail" Or if they cannot get something like a nut started on a bolt or cannot get a trailer hitched on to the ball or even, maybe, if they keep missing the nail we ask them " Do they need a bit of fluff around it?" But we NEVER ask that if ladies are present!!!!!
Sam
 
(quoted from post at 13:18:36 02/12/14) When someone has missed the nail and ended up doing a silly dance holding their thumb tightly......We always ask "did ya hit the wrong nail" Or if they cannot get something like a nut started on a bolt or cannot get a trailer hitched on to the ball or even, maybe, if they keep missing the nail we ask them " Do they need a bit of fluff around it?"[b:0ff7d49206] But we NEVER ask that if ladies are present!!!!![/b:0ff7d49206]
Sam
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y wife has no trouble saying to me,.."put some hair around that hole" if i have trouble lining up something like a bolt in a blind hole. :lol:
 
there was a carpenter nailing up wallboard.
he would drive in a nail or two and throw others away.
another carpenter asked him why he would throw those nails away.
he said those are for the other side of the room.
 
Mostly these days it's pull trigger.Youngsters just don't hand drive enough nails anymore.Looks like they are chopping wood not snapping wrist to get accurate blows.Just my opinion after 32 years in the trade.

Vito
 
I've heard the one about putting the hair around it, but it's usually in relation to getting a bolt etc stuck where it needs to go. More commonly I've heard the one about driving a nail like lightning and never hitting the same place twice.
 
on the hair bit had a guy told his buddy move it a hair after it moved an inch or better the guy stepped back and said i hate to meet your girlfriend!!!!
 
My dad is a retired carpenter ...when I was younger on side jobs him and he hurd me missing as many times I did he would say ok every 3rd swing hit the nail ...ahhh the good ol daze ...
 
Brother in law was a carpenter and every time you would miss the nail he would say "backing word again. My dad would say if you hit the wrong nail " it will heal be for you are a grandpa"
 
If we hit our thumb with the hammer, Grandad ustd ta say, do it again, that was fun to watch! Never use a hammer that a lefty has used, the face of the hammer wears enough on the wrong side, to make a right handed man bend most nails, when using a lefty's hammer...
 
Worked for a framing crew in college. Hee Haw, Hee Haw, Donkey tracks. Or, You are not getting paid to decorate the wood. The response was always something like, That board must have gotten damaged in transit. I am not building a piano.
 
My good friend and neighbor calls me a dumb sh--- when I do something like that. It usually happens when my arm gets tired from driving a pole nail at some weird angle. Jim
 
Former BIL used to say when he was done making mule marks he was gonna hit the nail.
Another BIL would act like he was cleaning the site on a rifle if he missed the nail.
An old carpenter that worked for us had an old tube steel handled hammer that the handle was bent. I used to give him a hard time about his bent hammer. He finally bought a new one. Used it for part of a day. Couldn't drive a nail without missing to save his life. He gave the brand new hammer to my Dad and went back to using the old hammer with the bent handle.
I get my hammer out every day. Can't remember the last time I used it to drive a nail though.
 
I liked this---

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tiy54lqPWhU&feature=player_embedded#t=0
 
My Grandad used to say that wouldn"t half go in if you were to hit it. Now my dad says it also, guess If I have kids it will get passed down to another generation.
Regards Robert
 
Bison, must be your Dutch roots.
Have heard the frying pan being suggested too.
Hendrik, from The Netherlands
 
My dad apparently worked around some union jobs in his younger days. If we were framing up a project, mating up the boards, he'd say, "Does it fit?" Then he'd answer himself: "No! Nail it!"

The dimple left in the wood by a missed hammer strike he called a "union label."
 
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